This was my first 3D animation project after starting at Sheridan, completed over five weeks.

The biggest challenge was quickly getting up to speed with software I had never used before—

Maya, Substance Painter, Nuke, and ZBrush

—as someone with no prior 3D background.

Other challenges included, but were not limited to:

rigging the mechanical arm with a simple parent hierarchy,

animating a blooming lotus using instancing,

creating a random shutter effect in the palm of the arm with expressions,

Simulating the motion of one of the small balls,

and sculpting the clouds in ZBrush.